Decision criteria for open source and proprietary software
The selection of operating systems was once one of the major decisions IT managers had to face when considering their options for service delivery, be it for servers or desktops. Until a decade or so ago, such choices were limited to choosing one from a range of proprietary operating systems supplied by vendors.
But the past 10 years have witnessed a new option take hold in the form of open source operating systems. What drives the selection process when choosing between open source software and operating systems supplied by a vendor?
When deliberating whether to use open source operating systems software or that supplied by a commercial ISV, the factors influencing the decision-making process are, essentially, the same as they have always been.
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